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Jette Steckel’s production of Mephisto transforms Klaus Mann’s “novel of a career” into a trenchant study of the relationship between art and power. The staging frames the narrative as a play within a play, heightening the theatricality of Hendrik Höfgen’s ascent. Florian Lösche’s mobile field of steles keeps the space in constant flux, visually mirroring moral and political instability. Rather than a simple portrait of opportunism, the production probes Höfgen’s vanity and residual notions of resistance. Critics note the work’s frightening topicality, drawing parallels to current cultural politics without flattening historical nuance. The result is a charismatic, clear-eyed evening that combines political analysis with bitter, amused exaggeration.
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